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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Overview of Customization
- Organize Program and Support Files
- Customize a Publish to Web Template
- Define Custom Commands
- Record and Modify Action Macros
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- Understand User Interface Customization
- Work with the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor
- Create and Manage Customization Files
- Customize Commands
- Overview of Commands
- Create, Edit, and Reuse Commands
- Create Macros
- Overview of Macros
- Use Special Control Characters in Macros
- Pause for User Input in Macros
- Provide International Support in Macros
- Use Built-in Commands in Macros
- Repeat Commands in Macros
- Use Single Object Selection Mode in Macros
- Use Macros to Swap User Interface Elements
- Use Conditional Expressions in Macros
- Use AutoLISP in Macros
- Control the Display of Command Items
- Assign Search Tags
- Create Tooltips and Extended Help for Commands
- Create Status Line Help Messages
- Assign, Create, and Manage Images for Commands
- Customize User Interface Elements
- Load an AutoLISP File
- Customize Workspaces
- Transfer and Migrate Customization
- Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor FAQs
- DIESEL
- Slides and Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Index
NOTE Click Import to import a BMP file stored on a local or network drive
to edit it in the Button Editor dialog box and store it in the working CUIx file.
5 Click Save.
The Save Image dialog box is displayed.
6 In the Save Image dialog box, Image Name text box, enter a name and
click OK.
The image is saved to the working CUIx file.
7 Click Close.
You are returned to the Customize User Interface Editor.
Quick Reference
Commands
CUI
Manages the customized user interface elements in the product.
Manage, Import, and Export Custom Images
Custom images stored as externally saved BMP files can be imported into a
loaded customization file and exported from a customization file to a local or
network drive. Custom images can be deleted from a customization file in the
Image Manager.
Prior to AutoCAD 2011, custom images used for commands in a customization
file were stored on a local or network drive as separate BMP files or in a resource
DLL. Resource DLLs are still maintained externally to customization files but
starting with AutoCAD 2011, BMP files used by custom commands defined
in a customization file are stored in the customization file.
You can use the Image Manager, the Button Editor dialog box, or the Button
Image pane to manage custom images in the loaded customization files. With
the Image Manager, you can import and export custom images to and from
a customization file. You can also use the Image Manager to see which custom
images are currently stored in a loaded customization file and remove those
that you no longer need. You can also use the Button Editor dialog box and
Button Image pane to import and export custom images.
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